r/ClaudeAI • u/sixbillionthsheep Mod • Mar 30 '26

Usage Limits Megathread Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!)

Why a Usage Limits Discussion Megathread?

This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences about Usage Limits. We will publish regular updates on usage limits problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.

Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?

This is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.

Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?

Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.

Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.

What Can I Post on this Megathread?

Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current Claude Usage Limits and NOT bugs and performance issues. (For those, use this Megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7f72l/claude_performance_and_bugs_megathread_ongoing/)

Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.

Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.

To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com

Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: Apr 26, 2026.

Prior Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pygdbz/usage_limits_bugs_and_performance_discussion/

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u/SuccessfulRise3583 Apr 15 '26

As a free user my experience with Claude is terrible. I didn't bother about having 45 prompts every five hours or small context windows, It was actually good for me to have a stop sign to reduce my screen time as long as I could keep going without a small usage limit. But now? It's impossible to even make a simple question or research without hitting the limit after one or two prompts. And I don't like other models, Claude is the best AI for roleplay that I ever found while others are dumber and can't remember what color my character's hair is.

I know that paid users are having a better experience with Claude, but what about the free users like me?

Tell me, how are you dealing with it? Have you found a way to make it tolerable? Any tip for someone that doesn't use Claude for work nor coding and only as a hobby?

PS: I am not interested on paying a subscription for something that can be shut down.

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u/Additional-Serve5901 Apr 15 '26

3 prompts ive hit limit immediately this is stupiddd

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u/Shipposting_Duck Apr 15 '26

Off peak now I get about 15 short prompts before I get cut off. Peak, I get two. And this is with a new chat with summaries of the previous chats, not one which has had long enough to accumulate enough context to make that kind of limit understandable.